I got a hint of sarcasm? The offer is for a free domain, hosted by
Microsoft. AFAIK Microsoft is not giving away a domain, but a full service,
part of the Live series of products. The person registered the domain for
free, and is trying to get away without paying the annual domain fee.

Does it sound fair to have the domain for free and also want to host
somewhere else? I would recommend simply register the domain with the
preferred registrar and it's his to keep, no complains, right?

I don't see people hosting with Google trying to move from their hosting,
neither complaining. But since this is hosted with Microsoft, then it is
reason enough to try to raise some points, just in case.

I did use their email hosting for a little bit, I found it quite neat that
people could check your domain name email through the familiar hotmail
interface. I didn't like the idea of hosting business emails on hotmail
servers for some reason, so I thought better of it.

Yeh, ok, look - we get the message you don't like Microsoft. Fine. No
problems here. But do you honestly have to keep going on and on about it?
The people that generally visit this forum are IMO pretty clever enough to
figure out if they like it or not. Yeh, fine - provide links to some
articles of topical interest, but FFS - not every bloody day!
Stop playing the same record over and over.

Brendon

"Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
news...
> But dude - who in their right mind would let Micro$oft touch their
> website?
>
> Much better to get it hosted by a reputable company rather than by
> Micro$oft.
>
>
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea
>
>

"Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
news...
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:56:50 +1200, Mauricio Freitas [MVP] wrote:
>
>> Remember, the Microsoft Office Live offers free domain, e-mail accounts,
>> *AND* hosting:
>
> But dude - who in their right mind would let Micro$oft touch their
> website?
>
> Much better to get it hosted by a reputable company rather than by
> Micro$oft.
>

Demographics. The objective of this Microsoft Office Live service is to
offer companies with no clue Internet business an easy entry into the thing:
email, domain, hosting. No fuss, no mess with "register domain, find
hosting, transfer DNS records, configure MX record, have mail server
installed, configure software, mess with updates".

It's free, so you get what you pay. It's easy to use, and will attract
people with no skills and no budget for IT.

If the guy is capable of doing what he put on the article - manually
transferring a domain, hosting itself and configuring the rest, then he
should know better than to go for the free option.

I run a Microsoft Exchange server at home. I am capable of doing this. Some
people are not, so their options are either pay (lots) for a service, or use
one that will give them just what they need, nothing else. And some are
happy with this option.

A lot of people started with geocities, and today they moved on. Most people
on the Internet are readers, and this kind of initiative (alongside with
Google Pages) gives people the chance to be publishers and put their
companies out there. Give them a chance...

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:47:13 +1200, Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
> That's just the thing. Micro$oft is giving the unknown to the clueless who
> choose to remain clueless rather than actually learn about what they're
> wanting to do.
>
> That is not a good thing.

Not having an option for these people is perhaps a bigger no-no. The
education they seek is available on the internet. You can't force people
to learn what they don't want to know. Ask any teacher

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:21:10 +1200, Waylon Kenning wrote:
>> That's just the thing. Micro$oft is giving the unknown to the clueless who
>> choose to remain clueless rather than actually learn about what they're
>> wanting to do.
>>
>> That is not a good thing.
>
> Not having an option for these people is perhaps a bigger no-no. The
> education they seek is available on the internet. You can't force people
> to learn what they don't want to know. Ask any teacher

So if they don't want to learn about IT stuff, then why on earth should
they expect the rest of the planet to suffer from the results of their
willful incompetance?

If instantly overnight all the computing illiterati suddenly were not able
to turn on their com... err... "Productivity Tools" then all the viruses
would be instantly wiped out.

Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
"Only one thing is impossible for a Vorlon to understand:
How to change the IRQ setting in any DOS computer."

"Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
news...
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:21:10 +1200, Waylon Kenning wrote:
>
>>> That's just the thing. Micro$oft is giving the unknown to the clueless
>>> who
>>> choose to remain clueless rather than actually learn about what they're
>>> wanting to do.
>>>
>>> That is not a good thing.
>>
>> Not having an option for these people is perhaps a bigger no-no. The
>> education they seek is available on the internet. You can't force people
>> to learn what they don't want to know. Ask any teacher
>
> So if they don't want to learn about IT stuff, then why on earth should
> they expect the rest of the planet to suffer from the results of their
> willful incompetance?
>

How the rest of the world will suffer if John Doe from John Doe, Associates
& Co Ltd decides to create a website for his company, and get some e-mail
addresses, and by the way, on the process doing it for free with an offer
for domain registration, email and domain hosting from a certain company
instead of doing it the hard way, i.e. registering the domain, manually
creating his website, uploading files, configuring servers, etc?

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:43:15 +1200, Have A Nice Cup of Tea <> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:21:10 +1200, Waylon Kenning wrote:
>
>>> That's just the thing. Micro$oft is giving the unknown to the clueless who
>>> choose to remain clueless rather than actually learn about what they're
>>> wanting to do.
>>>
>>> That is not a good thing.
>>
>> Not having an option for these people is perhaps a bigger no-no. The
>> education they seek is available on the internet. You can't force people
>> to learn what they don't want to know. Ask any teacher
>
>So if they don't want to learn about IT stuff, then why on earth should
>they expect the rest of the planet to suffer from the results of their
>willful incompetance?
>
>If instantly overnight all the computing illiterati suddenly were not able
>to turn on their com... err... "Productivity Tools" then all the viruses
>would be instantly wiped out.

What are you worried about other people having viruses for? You keep on telling
us they don't effect you on your linux systems.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:12:55 +1200, Craig Shore wrote:
>>If instantly overnight all the computing illiterati suddenly were not
>>able to turn on their com... err... "Productivity Tools" then all the
>>viruses would be instantly wiped out.
>
> What are you worried about other people having viruses for? You keep on
> telling us they don't effect you on your linux systems.

They don't.

But they are a performance hit to the Internet.

Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
1/ Migration to Linux only costs money once. Higher Windows TCO is forever.
2/ "Shared source" is a poison pill. Open Source is freedom.
3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.

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